The Love Lips vibrator is the sex toy you’ll never be afraid to pack in your carry-on: small, sleek, and ultimately unsuspicious, it looks exactly, and I do mean exactly, like an ordinary tube of lipstick. If thoughts of nosy TSA officials have been leaving you toyless in your travels, the Love Lips may be just the thing to get that hotel room bed a-rockin’.

The Love Lips arrives packaged like a gourmet truffle in a pink plastic heart, complete with a velvet carrying case (although one might argue that the “Love to Love” slogan on the case, coupled with large pink lightning bolt, is bound to blow your cover). The packaging is cute and tasteful, making it just the kind of little jewel that you’d love to give a friend at her bachelorette party.

Functionality is the low point of this vibe, and the trade off between discretion and actual ability to satisfy is clear. To turn it on, you twist the tube as you would with a real lipstick (yes, too cute for words), and the whole tube begins to vibrate. Although it gives a healthy buzz, the toy is overall quite small, and women who want vibration over an area much larger than an index finger will be disappointed.

The toy also has several distinct ridges as part of the lipstick shape. These are great for camouflage, but not so great once you’ve got them on your nether regions: they can poke and scrape at just the wrong moment. The moving lipstick tip also creates a groove that would be nearly impossible to get clean. The best option, both for comfort and hygiene, might be to use just the smooth, rounded lipstick tip for vibration, but for many women a vibrator that amounts to the size of a knuckle just isn’t going to cut it.

The Love Lips vibe has its merits as a small, very discreet vibrator that you can take anywhere, and the lovely packaging makes it a great, naughty gift for a girlfriend. For serious sex-toy sessions, though, you'll likely want to look elsewhere.